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Smart water flooding performance in carbonate reservoirs: an experimental approach for tertiary oil recovery

Darvish Sarvestani, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2019

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/s13202-019-0650-9
  3. Publisher: Springer , 2019
  4. Abstract:
  5. Smart water flooding as a developing technique utilizes modified water chemistry in terms of salinity and composition to prepare the best-suited brine composition for a specific brine/oil/rock system to obtain higher oil recovery efficiency. Huge amount of unrecovered oil is expected to be remained in carbonate reservoirs; however, few research works on incremental oil recovery during smart water injection in carbonate cores at reservoir condition are reported. Several core flooding tests using one of the Iranian carbonate reservoir rock are conducted to check the effectiveness of smart water injection for more oil recovery efficiency. The results reaffirm the positive effect of sulfate ions to play a key role for better smart water performance. Moreover, it was concluded that the calcium ion concentration is not as effective as magnesium ion for the tests performed at reservoir condition. Synthetic sea water (high-salinity) flooding was considered as the base scenario which results in almost 63% oil recovery efficiency for secondary recovery scenario. Formation of micro-emulsions was found to be the main reason of additional pressure drop during low-salinity water flooding. This clearly showed that the diluted smart water injecting increases the ultimate oil recovery up to 4–12% for already water-flooded carbonate reservoirs. © 2019, The Author(s)
  6. Keywords:
  7. Carbonate ; Low salinity water injection ; Smart water injection ; Tertiary oil recovery ; Carbonates ; Carbonation ; Efficiency ; Floods ; Metal ions ; Petroleum reservoirs ; Reservoirs (water) ; Seawater ; Secondary recovery ; Sulfur compounds ; Water injection ; Additional pressure drops ; Calcium ion concentration ; Carbonate reservoir ; Experimental approaches ; Low-salinity water ; Oil recovery efficiency ; Reservoir conditions
  8. Source: Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology ; Volume 9, Issue 4 , 2019 , Pages 2643-2657 ; 21900558 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13202-019-0650-9